Educational Agro- Industrial Cluster as an Efficient Form for Advanced Multilevel Agricultural Education Aimed at Innovative Agrarian Practices

The article considers a new model of professional agricultural education for developing learners’ innovative potential within a multilevel education system. Before developing this new model we made a thorough cultural-historical analysis of educational concepts underlying educational activities of a German classical university (the paradigm of autonomy) and an American university (a heteronomous paradigm). The research allowed to determine the methodological approach to the development of an educational agricultural cluster. It was done by active participation of Tomsk Agricultural Institute. The study of the problem allows us together with agribusiness, institutions of secondary vocational education, and rural comprehensive secondary schools to propose a range of integration measures. All above mentioned institutions also took an active part in the formation of the educational agro-industrial cluster. We then determined the strategy of the cluster development and specified the functions of Tomsk Agricultural Institute to coordinate the work of all structural departments responsible for professional training of specialists interested in innovative activities in the agricultural sector.

Keywords:

educational paradigms , proactive advanced training , agricultural IT-school , institutions of secondary vocational education , agricultural institute of higher education , innovative agricultural plant , integration , innovative potential of learners